Note 193 — Chapter VI

In the orders themselves the justices are ordered to "use all other good meanes that ar not menconed in these orders that the marketts be well served and the pore releyved ... duringe this time of dearth." The letters sent with them stated that the orders were devised because of "Her Majestie's care for the releefe of the poore in this tyme of derthe." See note above. Many reports show that the orders were intended to help the poor. One from Kington, Warwickshire, is signed by the Sir Thomas Lucy of Shakespearian fame and by Richard Verney. The report is said to be sent "in the execution of the orders sett downe by the lords of her mats moste honorable privie councell for the desposinge of corne and graine in reliefe of the poore and furnishinge the marketts." Ib., Vol. 198, 77. I. See also Beds. justices report orders taken "for the staie of the dearthe of graine and the reliefe of the poore therof." D. S. P. Vol. 200, No. 10.

In Buckinghamshire overseers were appointed "to see in our absence all things dulye performed as well for the reliefe of the poorer sort as otherwise." Vol. 199, I. II. IV. V., &c.